Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Anger » Avoid those given to
Company » Who not to have company with
Now we charge you, brothers, on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to hold yourselves aloof from any brother who is living as a shirker instead of following the teachings you received from us.
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No one has God, who goes too far and fails to stay by the teaching of Christ. Whoever stays by this teaching has the Father and the Son. If anyone continuously comes to see you without bringing this teaching, you must stop welcoming him to your house and stop bidding him good morning, For whoever keeps on bidding him good morning is sharing in his wicked works.
I wrote you in my letter to stop associating with sexually immoral people -- not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world. Now what I really meant was for you to stop associating with any so-called brother, if he is sexually immoral, a greedy grasper, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler -- with such a person you must even stop eating. read more.
For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church, but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.
For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church, but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.
If anyone teaches different doctrines and refuses to agree with the wholesome messages of our Lord Jesus Christ, the teaching that is in accordance with true religion, he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions, and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.
Evil » Doers » Evil example to be shunned
So, dearly beloved, since you have been forewarned, you must always be on your guard against being led astray by the errors of lawless men, and so against falling away from your present firmness;
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Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --
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So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.
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Example » Evil example to be shunned
So, dearly beloved, since you have been forewarned, you must always be on your guard against being led astray by the errors of lawless men, and so against falling away from your present firmness;
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Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --
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So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.
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Learning » Whose ways you should not learn
Snares » Who becomes snared
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
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